Enhanced Office experiences on Mac, iPhone, and the web
== Microsoft Office 2016 will offer new security, compliance, and deployment features, giving organizations greater control over sensitive data and giving IT greater flexibility in deployment and management. Microsoft has expanded the Office footprint to iPad and Android tablets. In addition, new apps have been added to the Office family with Sway and Office Lens. All designed to keep you working wherever you are.
The Microsoft Office 2016 suite includes apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
While you’ve seen a focus on aligning Office across platforms over the past year, make no mistake, Office on the Windows desktop is central to our strategy. Office 2007, Office 2010, Office 365, or Office 2013 users can open documents they’ve created without any additional action. Customers using earlier versions of Office may need to download and install a compatibility pack. New in Microsoft Office 2016: Your documents anywhere – Office 2016 apps make it easier to leverage the power of feature-rich apps to create, open, edit, and save files in the cloud from your desktop, so you can access them anywhere, on any device.
All of this makes it easier to share and collaborate on your work with others
In addition, new modern attachments in Outlook make it easy to attach files from OneDrive and automatically configure recipient permissions – without leaving Outlook. Collaboration – Real-time co-authoring is available today in Office Online apps, and we’re bringing this experience to Windows desktop apps, starting with Word. When you and your team are working in Word 2016 and/or Office online, you can see where other editors are working and what they’re writing—all in real time. Intelligent apps—Apps learn as you work, leveraging subtle cues and cues to help you stay on task and get more out of Office.
And Insights, powered by Bing, finds contextual information from the web in your reading experience
Tell Me, a new search tool in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, lets you type the commands you want. Clutter—a new Exchange feature that shines in Outlook—uses machine learning to analyze email patterns and declutter your inbox by moving lower-priority messages to a new Clutter folder. Faster and easier data analysis – Excel has new analytics capabilities built in, making it faster and easier than ever to retrieve, map, analyze, and visualize your data. • One-click forecasting.
• Intuitive data connection and shaping capabilities
Create forecasts from your data series with a single click to see future trends. With integrated Power Query, you can use Excel as your personal analytics workspace by connecting to and viewing all the data around you. Leverage a wide range of data sources, including spreadsheets from websites, enterprise data like SAP Business Objects, unstructured sources like Hadoop, and services like Salesforce.